Article May 18, 1974 Issue

It's Great to Be Humble

JULIE CAMPBELL TATHAM

Odd as it may sound, being really humble makes you feel great! But expressing true humility doesn't mean letting other people walk all over you. Nor should you feel inferior—thinking that everyone else is better than you.

Being humble means, of course, not being arrogant, proud, or haughty. It means much more than that. It means knowing also you're the child of God, and that your identity is God's expression of His own qualities through you. It means acknowledging that you're completely dependent upon God for everything, and upon God alone.

Christ Jesus was the most humble, yet the greatest, man who ever walked the earth. He gave us a wonderful definition of humility: "The Son can do nothing of himself, but what he seeth the Father do: for what things soever he doeth, these also doeth the Son likewise. For the Father loveth the Son, and sheweth him all things that himself doeth."^{John 5:19, 20;}

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